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“[M]ost of the advances in Western scientific history, contrary to popular belief, occurred when scientists were not servants of the state.”
Curtis Yarvin (born 1973) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It is very difficult for a modern American to construct the history of the last 250 years as a history of decay. Decay is especially concealed by the obvious history of technical and scientific progress. While this has no reason at all to correlate with political or cultural progress, the two are certainly not hard to confuse.”
Curtis Yarvin (born 1973) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I date the Fourth Republic and the Progressive period to 1933. We can read this story in two ways. We can read it as the coming of modern, scientific government in the United States. Or we can read it as the transfer of power from political democracy to the American university system — which, just for the sake of a catchy catchword, I like to call the Cathedral.”
Curtis Yarvin (born 1973) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Thus it is that the tangible utility of scientific results has made the public authorities understand that laboratory work should be encouraged and sustained, because it is economically a benefit to all and for the public health.”
Marcellin Berthelot (1827–1907) said by 1907 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Hindu mythology is virtually a large scale projection into the psychological realm of microscopic scientific discoveries. … The Wu Li Masters know that physicists are doing more than discovering the endless diversity of nature. They are dancing with Kali, the Divine Mother of Hindu mythology.”
Gary Zukav (born 1942) first seen 2008 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in A Tribute to Hinduism: Thoughts and Wisdom Spanning Continents and Time about India and Her Culture (2008) by Sushama Londhe
“The scientific quest is a journey into the unknown.”
Paul Davies (born 1946) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[P]olitical policy should be based, not upon mere opinion, nor upon a set of knee jerk reflexes, but upon a scientific concern for the facts and an intelligent and open moral argument.”
Richard D. Ryder (born 1940) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Scientific Management is not a new "system," something "invented" by a man called F. W. Taylor, a passing novelty." It is something much deeper, an attitude towards the control of human systems of co-operation of all kinds rendered essential by the immense accretion of power over material things ushered in by the industrial revolution...”
Lyndall Urwick (1891–1983) said by 1983 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[E]ven if at the end of the day, the bad guys turn out to be more correct scientifically than I am, life is short, and we have to make choices about how we spend our time. And that's where I think the multiple intelligences way of thinking about things will continue to be useful even if the scientific evidence doesn't support it.”
Howard Gardner (born 1943) first seen 2009 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Intelligence: It's not just IQ". Lecture at Rockefeller University, New York, 2009. (At 45:11–31.)
“The regulative principles of management along scientific lines include four important elements:”
Hugo Diemer (1870–1939) said by 1939 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The Scientific Revolution... has been above all a revolution of ignorance. The great discovery... was... that humans do not know the answers to their most important questions.”
Yuval Noah Harari (born 1976) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Scientists... are not always aware of the political, economic and religious interests that control... money; many... act out of purely intellectual curiosity. ...[O]nly rarely do scientists dictate the scientific agenda.”
Yuval Noah Harari (born 1976) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The Scientific Revolution and modern imperialism were inseparable.”
Yuval Noah Harari (born 1976) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Europeans were used to thinking and behaving in a scientific and capitalist way... before they enjoyed... technological advantage.”
Yuval Noah Harari (born 1976) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, almost every important military expedition that left Europe... had on board scientists who set out... to... make scientific discoveries.”
Yuval Noah Harari (born 1976) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“For modern Europeans, building an empire was a scientific project...”
Yuval Noah Harari (born 1976) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“For 2500 years, Buddhists have systematically studied the essence and cause of happiness. which is why there is a growing interest among the scientific community both in their philosophy and their meditation practices.”
Yuval Noah Harari (born 1976) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[I]f humankind doesn’t annihilate itself... the Scientific Revolution... may turn out to be the most important bological revolution...”
Yuval Noah Harari (born 1976) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[F]rom a purely scientific viewpoint, human life has... no meaning... the outcome of blind evolutionary processes... without goal or purpose. Our actions are not part of... divine cosmic plan, and if planet earth were to blow up... the universe would... keep going... business as usual. ...[H]uman subjectivity would not be missed. ...[M]eaning ...people ascribe to their lives is... delusion.”
Yuval Noah Harari (born 1976) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[Messianic tendencies of management thought, especially scientific management had the tendency] to extend the objective, positivist approach to an ever-enlarging complex of phenomena.”
Dwight Waldo (1913–2000) said by 2000 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: p. 57 as cited in: Robert B. Denhardt, Thomas J. Catlaw (2014), Theories of Public Organization, p. 72
“It is important, therefore, to understand at the outset the simplicity of this book - what it can accomplish and what it cannot. What it does try to do is to isolate certain psychological factors and to demonstrate rigorously by quantitative scientific methods that these factors are generally important in economic development.”
David C. McClelland (1917–1998) said by 1998 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The earliest scientific investigations related to the field of occupational stress were conducted by the well-known physiologist in the early part of the twentieth century (e.g., Cannon, 1914). Cannon was a pioneer in the investigation of the relationship between emotions and physiological responses, and is perhaps best known for having coined the term homeostasis.”
Steve M. Jex wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In this study, the primary aim has been to provide a perspective on organization development which would combine basic truths with practical realities. The answers had to be drawn, in the first place, from the wisdom of the great authorities of the past. These were the pioneers in scientific management and their followers, and the economists who evolved the principles of profit maximization.”
Ernest Dale (1917–1996) said by 1996 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The technical apparatus of modem organization is far more complicated, elaborate, and scientific than that of preceding generations.”
Charles Edward Merriam (1874–1953) first seen 1949 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: p. 150-1 ; as cited in Albert Lepawsky (1949), Administration, p. 220-1
“To illustrate the point of legitimacy-beyond-legality, consider the American Nazi party, the Flat Earth Society, and Hustler magazine. All three are quite legal, but they lack legitimacy. We acquiesce in their presence as the price we pay for living in a free society; but we refuse to take them seriously as "legitimate" expressions of political action, scientific inquiry or literary endeavor.”
John Rohr (1934–2011) said by 2011 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The theorists of scientific management seem to think that the most subtle methods are indispensable for physical measurements, but for psychological inquiry nothing but a kind of intuition is necessary.”
Hugo Münsterberg (1863–1916) said by 1916 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“By spreading logical culture, we prepare the foundation for a scientific world-view and by doing this we enable development.”
Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz (1890–1963) said by 1963 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz, (1985b, 142), as cited in Łukasiewicz, 2016.
“From 800 BC to 1950 AD, 97% of the world's scientific advancements occurred in Europe and North America. 98% of the significant figures were male. No white males, no modern world. Fact. I'm grateful. Are you? End the hate. Aspire to admire, whatever the race.”
Stefan Molyneux (born 1966) first seen 2018 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: @StefanMolyneux, Twitter (December 5, 2018)
“I abhor vivisection. It should be abolished. I know of no achievement through vivisection, no scientific discovery, that could not have been obtained without such barbarism and cruelty. The whole thing is evil.”
Charles Horace Mayo (1865–1939) first seen 1921 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Heard, personally, in 1921 or 1922 by the interviewer William H. Hendrix, staff writer for the New York Daily News, and later reported by Hendrix in New York Daily News, 13 March 1961; see "Animal Experiments", in Los A…
“Scientific number, being set over such things as these, should be harmoniously constituted, in accordance with itself; not by any other but by itself.”
Nicomachus (60–120) said by 120 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Almost all of us in the United States will die of diseases of affluence. We can minimise our risk of contracting deadly diseases just by eating the right food. Do I think that the China Study findings constitute absolute scientific proof? Of course not. Does it provide enough information to inform some practical decision-making? Absolutely.”
T. Colin Campbell (born 1934) first seen 2016 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: T. Colin Campbell and Thomas M. Campbell II, The China Study (Revised and Expanded Edition, 2016) - Part I, Chapter 4 (Lessons from China), at p.94. 95.
“Sorel declared that Marx’s theory was ‘the greatest innovation in philosophy for centuries; it was the starting point of a fruitful transformation in our form of speculation. All our ideas must concentrate round the new principles of scientific socialism.’”
Zeev Sternhell (1935–2020) said by 2020 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Like all self-respecting revolutionaries, Mussolini considered himself a Marxist. He regarded Marx as the ‘greatest theoretician of socialism’ and Marxism as the ‘scientific doctrine of class revolution.’”
Zeev Sternhell (1935–2020) said by 2020 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It is interesting to note that scientific men all over the world are awakening to the fact that the flesh of animals as food is not a pure nutriment, but is mixed with poisonous substances, excrementitious in character, which are the natural results of animal life.”
John Harvey Kellogg (1852–1943) first seen 1909 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted in Some Glimpses of Occultism: Ancient and Modern by C. W. Leadbeater, Rajput Press, 1909, p. 265.
“Things of real worth, such as the mental life of the ant or the crab, fill psychological and scientific literature; but such a thing as death, which involves the whole human race more intimately than anything else possibly can - since all must die - is regarded as hardly worthy of serious discussion!”
Charles Webster Leadbeater (1854–1934) said by 1934 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We define the knowledge economy as production and services based on knowledge-intensive activities that contribute to an accelerated pace of technical and scientific advance, as well as rapid obsolescence. The key component of a knowledge economy is a greater reliance on intellectual capabilities than on physical inputs or natural resources.”
Walter W. Powell (born 1951) first seen 2004 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Walter W. Powell and Kaisa Snellman. "The knowledge economy." Annu. Rev. Sociol. 30 (2004): 199-220.
“Nature has time without limit, but man has immediate need for better and still better food, houses and clothing, and our present state of civilization depends largely upon the improvements of plants and animals which have consciously and half-consciously been made by man, and future civilization must more and more depend upon scientific efforts to this end.”
Luther Burbank (1849–1926) said by 1926 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There is little scientific data on the point, but evidently people do speak to themselves.”
David Crystal (born 1941) first seen 1994 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: David Crystal, "Refining stylistic discourse categories," In: G. Melchers & B. Warren (eds), English linguistics in honour of Magnus Ljung (Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell, 1994), 35–46
“The medium of printed scientific text is first of all a visual one.”
Jay Lemke (born 1946) first seen 1998 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Jay L. Lemke (1998) "Multiplying meaning: Visual and verbal semiotics in scientific text." In J. R. Martin & R. Veel (Eds.), Reading science: Critical and functional perspectives on discourses of science. London: Routle…
“In terms of language, we do know what a scientific theory or conceptual system must be: it is a thematic pattern of semantic relationships in a subject, one that is reconstructed again and again in nearly the same ways by members of a community.”
“Scientific language that is correct and serious so far as teachers and students are concerned must follow these stylistic norms:”
“A discourse, a way of speaking, is considered less scientific, or even rendered ‘unscientific’ exactly to the extent that it includes elements either of the language of feeling or of the language of action and values.”
“In my enthusiasm Monte Carlo appeared to me in a new light; it was clearly a scientific laboratory preparing material for the natural philosopher.”
Karl Pearson (1857–1936) said by 1936 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The absence of the improbable, the redundancy of the probable, is just as much conclusive evidence against conformity with scientific law as the too frequent occurrence of the improbable itself.”
Karl Pearson (1857–1936) said by 1936 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Standing in 1875 on the well known wooden bridge at Luzern, with its pictures of the Dance of Death, it struck me that something might be done to resuscitate the mediaeval conception of the relation between Death and Chance and to express it in a more modern scientific form. ...[M]y aim in this essay is to place before the reader a modern conception of the Dance of Death.”
Karl Pearson (1857–1936) said by 1936 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[T]his deficient organisation will not only in time be perceived by the enemy, but... has already had a very discouraging influence both on scientific recruits and on intelligent laymen.”
Karl Pearson (1857–1936) said by 1936 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There is no short cut to truth, no way to gain a knowledge of the universe except through the gateway of scientific method.”
Karl Pearson (1857–1936) said by 1936 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Does not the beauty of the artist's work lie for us in the accuracy with which his symbols resume innumerable facts of our past emotional experience? ... [A]esthetic judgment... how exactly parallel it is to the scientific judgment.”
Karl Pearson (1857–1936) first seen 1815 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Introductory. Pearson refers the reader to William Wordsworth's preface to the Lyrical Ballads (1815) "General View of Poetry".
“Scientific advances can wreak havoc with social values. What appears to be advanced thinking at times turns out to be retrograde attempts at dehumanization. Advances in technology can be used to commoditize human beings. Genetic fetal testing, for example, can be used to screen against the "unfit".”
Daniel A. Vallero (born 1953) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I have too much respect for God to make it a scientific hypothesis.”
Georges Lemaître (1894–1966) said by 1966 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in Andrea Tornielli, Il Creatore e le ipotesi della scienza (April 3, 2024)